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Provides access to a suite of powerful proprietary large language models, including GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, via API for developers to build AI-powered applications.

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6 alternatives to OpenAI

Qwen

Alibaba's Apache 2.0 LLM in sizes from small to frontier scale

Free

Key differentiator

An open-source family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, featuring scalable model sizes and versions released under permissive licenses like Apache 2

21,139 stars1,804 forksPython

OpenLLaMA

Permissive open LLaMA reproduction in 3B, 7B, and 13B parameters

Free

Key differentiator

An open-source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA models, offering permissively licensed weights in 3B, 7B, and 13B parameter sizes compatible with both PyTorch and JAX

7,528 stars406 forks

Steel‑LLM

1B Chinese LLM with public weights, training code, and data

Free

Key differentiator

A fully open-source, 1B-parameter Chinese-centric language model trained from scratch, with complete access to code, data, checkpoints, and logs under the Apache 2

800 stars79 forksJupyter Notebook

TinyLLaMA

Compact 1.1B LLaMA model trained on 3 trillion tokens

Free

Key differentiator

A compact, open-source LLaMA-based language model (~1

8,961 stars615 forksPython

BLOOM

Open weights, GPT-3 scale, support for 46 natural languages

Free

Key differentiator

BLOOM is a 176-billion parameter open-access multilingual language model trained on 46 natural languages — the first model at GPT-3 scale with openly downloadable weights spanning non-English languages

1,015 stars101 forksShell

Falcon LLM

Apache 2.0-licensed LLM from TII, from 1B to 180B parameters

Free

Key differentiator

Falcon LLM is an open source large language model for commercial use — Apache 2

9,226 stars765 forksPython